:00:48
By the year 2000, we'd overpopulated,
polluted and poisoned our planet...
:00:53
...faster than we could clean it up.
:00:55
We ignored the problem for as long as
we could but were kidding ourselves.
:01:00
By 2025, we knew we were
in trouble...
:01:03
...and began to desperately search
for a new home: Mars.
:01:08
For the last 20 years, we've sent
unmanned probes with algae...
:01:11
...bioengineered to grow there and
produce oxygen.
:01:15
We'll build ourselves an atmosphere
we can breathe.
:01:18
And for 20 years it seemed to work.
It looked like we'd pulled it off.
:01:23
Then all of a sudden,
oxygen levels started to drop.
:01:26
We don 't know why.
:01:44
The international community has thrown
all its resources behind us.
:01:48
It's the greatest undertaking man
has ever attempted.
:01:51
Our ship, Mars-1 , is too massive to
launch from the surface of the planet.
:01:56
We've shuttled to the high-orbit
space station...
:01:59
...for a low-gravity launch to begin
our six-month trip: